Pr. Karim Fizazi, M.D., PhD

Karim Fizazi, MD, PhD, is a medical oncologist at Institut Gustave Roussy and full professor in Oncology at the University of Paris Saclay in Villejuif, France.

After training as a medical student at the University of Poitiers, France, Prof Fizazi completed his residency (Internat) in Paris and attained his medical degree in 1995. In 1997, he completed a fellowship in medical oncology at Gustave Roussy.

After a visiting professorship at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, USA from 1999 to 2001 where he was working on preclinical models of bone metastases from prostate cancer, he gained his PhD in Molecular Oncology in 2003.

He was head of the Department of Cancer Medicine at Institute Gustave Roussy from 2005 to 2018 and he became full professor at the University of Paris in 2009.

He is the president of the French Groupe d’Etude des Tumeurs Genito-Urinaires (GETUG) and head of the GU oncology group at Gustave Roussy. Prof. Fizazi is associate editor of European Journal of Cancer.

Furthermore, he has authored numerous abstracts at international congresses and has published more than 500 peer-reviewed articles.